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Hughes harshly treated by Man City 9:42pm on 20 Dec 2009 His results have been poor. They decided to get a winning coach, used to big teams instead of a man who is used think like he was in a small teams(he left Blackburn but his mind still manages like he was there) lacks attacking ambition, titles and, for all he has spent, hasn't done much.

Is Mancini unproven on the Premier League? Yes. So was Carlo Ancelotti, so was Rafa Benitez, so was Arsene Wenger.

I've been saying on Mr. Vickery blog that Robinho should leave Man City to Barcelona only because Mark Hughes style didn't suit him. He doesn't have to leave now, hopefully, Mancini will get him to shine properly like he deserves.
Bowled over by Robinho exclusive 3:35pm on 16 Dec 2009 As a Brazilian, I want to see him where he can do something good(Barcelona) not playing for a coach that has nothing to do with him(Mark Hughes)

I don't dislike Man City, in fact, I want them to win the premier soon. But I really dislike Mark Hughes way to coach.
Mixed fortunes for South Americans in draw 8:31pm on 09 Dec 2009 96 & 97 - Brazil accounts for 5/9 and Italy for 4/9, so yeah, we are more than half of south-american titles and italy are a little bit less than half of european titles.

My point was that the Europeans and the South-Americans are even only because we gone on to win 5 times. Had it not happened, it would be 4 against 9 titles. That's "nowhere near".

Take Italy off the equation as well and you get 4 against 5 titles. Even again.

There are lots of persons saying that the Europeans are talentless and that they rely on their physical approach to the game. That's pretty much wrong. That's the opinion of someone who never watched football.

There's no "South-American superiority on South Africa next year" simply because we rely on Brazil or Argentina to win it next year. Can you see both nations going to the final?
Mixed fortunes for South Americans in draw 3:14pm on 09 Dec 2009 93 - Do you really say that the "Spanish lack creativity and real talent"? Do you EVER watch football?

Does anybody know that if-not for Brazil then South America would not be anywhere near Europe in World Cup counts?

The Europeans are not to be underestimated.
Mixed fortunes for South Americans in draw 3:14pm on 08 Dec 2009 82 - Recently North Korea faced a team from the second division of the Sao Paulo State Championship(so Brazilian team), on North Korea.

Atletico Sorocabano played as yellow and in the score it was written "Brazil"(so the north koreans fooled their own people to make them believe they were facing Brazil)

The game was a stalemate, 0-0. North Korea played 5 defenders, 2 defensive midfielders, 1 midfielder and 2 attackers.

Now, if Atletico Sorocabano can draw against North Korea, Brazil can scrap a 1-0 victory with a moment of brilliance of someone, right?

If we can't beat North Korea, then we have no chances with Ivory Coast and Portugal.

87 - I can't recall favorites winning the world cup, ever. If I had to bet, it would be on Argentina.
Mixed fortunes for South Americans in draw 9:30pm on 07 Dec 2009 69 - That was exactly my point. Although Rooney and Gerrard are not what I call "flairful"(Joe Cole for Chelsea is, but Rooney and Gerrard are better players)

We don't agree on Kaka', Messi and C. Ronaldo though, the latter two are the outstanding players in this era(The After Ronaldo/Zidane era). Ronaldinho could have been there, had he not imploded himself.
Mixed fortunes for South Americans in draw 4:43pm on 07 Dec 2009 59 - Aside Joe Cole(for England) and Figo(for Portugal), all of them were successful, either at Euro(World Cup 2006 looked like an Euro Championship) or World Cups.

It's true that Baggio didn't win it, but was a penalty shoot-out from it.

I could also cite Del Piero, Totti, Henry, Zlatan, Guardiola, Stoichkov big european names that I simply forgot. Do not be mistaken, European football is very close to South American football(aside from Brazil and Argentina, what else do we have?)

And that goal from Ronaldinho, I've seen similar from Pirlo, for example. The situation was just not presented at a world cup, but for club football.
Mixed fortunes for South Americans in draw 3:20pm on 07 Dec 2009 51 - What you're saying is that Europeans players lack the south-american flair?

Zidane, Iniesta, Xavi, Fabregas, Cristiano Ronaldo, Pirlo(he's a deep-lying midfielder, do you expect him to go up front and shoot like an attacking midfielder?), Xabi Alonso, Figo, Joao Moutinho, Baggio, Aquilani, Joe Cole, Cruyff, Gullit, van Basten, Fernando Torres, just to name the first ones that come to my mind.

Those are very talented players who are also very full of flair, and they are all european. Yes, you can make a list, even bigger, with south-american players, but the europeans are by no means "talentless" "creativeless" players. By the contrary, who has demonstrated more flair and creativity in the last few years? Spain or Brazil?
Mixed fortunes for South Americans in draw 6:43pm on 06 Dec 2009 26 - And Chile. I'd rate Chile as strong as Portugal and Ivory Coast.

I do believe that the best two games from the first knockout phase will come from group G and H.

No real champion should fear any opposition but I really wanted to see Brazil and Spain in the final.
Can history be made in South Africa? 3:34pm on 01 Dec 2009 As a Brazilian with Spanish passport I'm very happy to see that my two nations favourites to the tournament. Seeing that Brazil won most of its would cups outside south america while the europeans never won it outside europe would give an obvious advantage for us, but there's only one world cup I'd consider for that argument:

1958 in Sweden.

Why so? Because it was in the heart of the enemy.

Winning in North America(1970, 1986, 1994) or Asia(2002) is irrelevant, somebody had to win, but in 3 of these 4 years a south-american nation had the best team, and in 1994 both teams were evenly matched(and the penalties decided, with a bit of luck, for the south-american nation)

So will be South Africa for the South America x Europe conflict, irrelevant. It'll be a coincidence if Argentina/Brazil win it, the confirmation that "outside europe-disadvantage" doesn't exist if an european team win it, something special if an african nation wins it and the end of the world if somebody else win it.

But if any European nations wins 2014, then it'll be something as good as if not better than Brazil's victory in 1958.

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